One night in August 1966, a group of trans* women and queer youth rioted against years of stigmatization and routine […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Hats off to women who saved the birds. The […]
Anne Bradstreet’s Elegies for her Grandchildren
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
VULVALUV: Taking Wearable Tech to a New Place
It seems like every day a new health tracking gizmo appears in stores. The fitbit. The Apple Watch. TICKRx. Leaf, […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Medical advertisements after FDA. The many fires that plagued […]
“I Would Just Want To Fly”: Lydia Pinkham, Women’s Medicine, and Social Networks
“I had been completely run-down. I would try to do my housework and could not. I would want to just […]
Outlander: A Story for Historians
While heading out for a quick lunch last week, I found myself in the elevator with a colleague from my […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 19th-century lesbian erotica. Beautiful vintage circus posters. A complicated […]
Making WIC Work
I can spot a WIC participant from three checkout lanes away. There is usually a growing line of unsuspecting shoppers […]
Being the Same and Different
This time last year, I’d just returned from three months at the University of Vienna being the Käthe Leichter visiting […]
